Our Grants

CIRM provides funding across five key areas: Infrastructure, Education, Discovery Research, Translational Research, and Clinical Research. By supporting projects at every stage of development, from initial discovery to clinical trials, CIRM drives progress in regenerative medicine and accelerates innovative therapies to patients.

Check out our portfolio of awards below. Click here to see a list of People We’ve Funded. Click here to see a list of our Funded Institutions.

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Institution Researcher name Grant Type Grant Title Award Value
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey Therapeutic Translational Research Projects ASCENT- Advanced Stem Cell Enteric Neuropathy Therapy $7,077,352
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Riverside Campus Dr. Huinan Hannah Liu SPARK Summer Training and Research Inspiration for Diverse Pipeline Engagement toward Advancing Stem Cell Treatment (STRIDE) $507,560
University of California, San Francisco Katherine Nielsen SPARK Stem Cell Summer Research Experiences $504,552
Stanford University Paul J. Utz SPARK Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine- High School Summer Research Internship $485,158
University of California, Davis Dr. Fernando A Fierro PhD SPARK Internship at a Cutting Edge CIRM-funded Stem Cell Research Facility $496,313
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Dolores Caffey-Fleming SPARK Exposing Students to Regenerative Medicine (ExStRM) $482,730
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Dr. Mark R Frey SPARK Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Summer Internships for High School Students from Under-Served Communities $508,750
University of California, San Diego James Murphy SPARK Summer Program To Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SPARK) $467,115
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sanjeev Ranade SPARK Stem Cells & STEM Education – a Summer Internship Program for California High School Students $509,000
City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute Dr. David Kong Ann SPARK Train, Educate, and Accelerate Mastery of Stem cell research (TEAMS) program $499,408
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Ellen B Fung SPARK Supporting Underrepresented STudents Adapting to Change: Summer Program to Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SUSTAIN a SPARK) $254,964
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli SPARK Mentored High School Summer Research Program $508,750
California Institute of Technology Dr. Henry A. Lester SPARK CIRM Early Investigators High School Stem Cell Research Program $132,717
Stanford University Paul J. Utz SPARK Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine- Summer Research Internship $350,482
University of California, San Francisco Katherine Nielsen SPARK Developing High School Students’ Research Practices and Regenerative Medicine Knowledge through a Summer Intern Program $382,430
University of California, Davis Gerhard Gerhard Bauer SPARK Internship at a Cutting Edge CIRM-funded Stem Cell Research Facility $360,573
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Wafa Tawackoli SPARK Mentored High School Summer Research Program $296,628
University of California, San Diego Armin Blesch Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Simplification of Excipient Solution for Implanting Candidate Human H9-scNSC Cell Line for Spinal Cord Injury $180,000
Stanford University Dr. Helen M Blau Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Stimulating endogenous muscle stem cells to counter muscle wasting $237,060
University of California, Irvine Dr. Brian J. Cummings Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Human neural stem cell (hNSC) derived exosomes vs CSC14 hNSCs for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) $202,667
University of California, Berkeley Kevin E. Healy Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Safety “Clinical Trial” of the Cardiac Liability of COVID19 Polytherapy $224,500
University of California, Los Angeles Dr. Caroline Y. Kuo Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Evaluation of Gene Therapy Approaches for Autosomal Recessive Hyper IgE Syndrome Due to Mutations in DOCK8 $234,000
Neurona Therapeutics Dr. Cory R Nicholas Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Global gene expression profiling of single inhibitory neurons derived from human stem cells $202,500
Stanford University Professor Hiromitsu Nakauchi Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Using metabolic pausing for maintaining stable and high-quality pluripotent stem cells $208,422
Aspen Neuroscience Dr. Andres Bratt-Leal Progression Award – Discovery Stage Research Projects Autologous therapy for Parkinson’s disease: single cell RNAseq for in depth characterization of transplanted cells $177,579
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